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is due the honor of its production, and it comes from the hands of one
of its numerous celebrated artists, Mr. Gunby. The precious metal, gold,
glitters in all its glory, intermixed, or rather united with extraordinary
beauty of cutting and rich and splendid enamelled painting. One is at a
loss whether most to admire the shape, the beauty of the cutting, the
enamelling, the general conception, or the immense bulk of this magnificent
and astounding work of art."
The "Scientific American" states, "The troup of
glass-blowers at Hope Chapel furnish a very interesting
evening's entertainment for those who are fond of practical things.
A steam-engine, most beautifully constructed of different colored glass,
is worked by steam all the time. The nature of the material affords
an opportunity to see all the several parts moving at once, and it is
really a very curious sight, even to an engineer, and one that will well
repay a visit."
Among the numerous specimens of ancient glass now
in the British Museum, there are enough of the Egyptian and Roman manufacture
to impress us with profound respect for the art as pursued by the earlier
workers in glass. Among them is a fragment considered as the
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